Senior Data Engineer - Anti-Piracy

Sky; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media and entertainment company in the UK is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join their Anti-Piracy team. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines and infrastructure to support anti-piracy operations. Applicants should have strong technical skills in data engineering and programming, especially in Python. The position offers a flexible hybrid working model and a range of perks to enhance your work-life balance.

Benefits

Sky Q

Sky Glass

Generous pension package

Private healthcare

Discounted mobile and broadband

Sky VIP rewards

Qualifications

• Proven experience in designing and scaling data pipelines in cloud environments.
• Deep experience with ETL processes and warehousing concepts.
• Strong SQL and programming skills, especially in Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable data pipelines for various data sources.
• Build optimized data infrastructure and ETL workflows.
• Create and refine SQL queries and data models.

Skills

Data pipeline design

Data modeling

SQL

Python

Communication

Tools

GCP

AWS

Airflow

BigQuery

Kafka

Job description

Overview

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe's leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work."

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Anti-Piracy team who will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data pipeline as well as optimizing data flow and collection within the Anti-Piracy Team.

The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the data infrastructure that powers our anti-piracy operations and intelligence capabilities. You'll develop and maintain data pipelines, architect data storage solutions, and help shape data standards and governance across the org. You'll partner closely with data scientists, analysts, and engineering teams to ensure our data is accurate, reliable, secure, and available when needed. The successful candidate must have strong technical skills as well as excellent communication skills.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, analysis, and visualisation across multiple sources
• Build and optimize data infrastructure and ETL workflows to support reliable extraction, transformation, and loading of large, complex datasets
• Create and refine SQL queries, data models, and data structures to support reporting, analytics, and business-critical workloads
• Monitor, validate, and troubleshoot data systems to ensure accuracy, performance, security, and scalability, resolving issues proactively
• Automate manual workflows and implement internal process improvements to enhance data delivery efficiency and system reliability
• Contribute to data governance standards, metadata management, and versioning processes while collaborating with data science and cross-functional teams
• Maintain thorough documentation for data pipelines, systems, and processes, and stay current on modern data engineering tools, architecture patterns, and best practices

What you'll bring

• Proven experience designing and scaling data pipelines and architectures in cloud environments (GCP and AWS desirable)
• Deep experience with data modelling, schema design, ETL/ELT, warehousing concepts, and distributed data systems
• Hands-on experience working with large, complex, or messy datasets and making them usable
• Strong SQL and scripting/programming skills (Python required; Java/Scala/C++ a plus)
• Experience with orchestration and workflow tools (Airflow, Cloud Composer, Dagster, etc.)
• Familiarity with modern data stack components (BigQuery, dbt, Kafka/PubSub, Spark, etc.)
• Knowledge of data security, access control, and best practices for handling sensitive data
• Experience collaborating across engineering, analytics, and product teams
• Strong communication skills, especially explaining data concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Team overview

Sky's Group Anti-Piracy team's purpose is to make our great content unavailable to pirates, and to make pirated content unattractive to consumers. We prevent the theft of Sky's content by making sure our platforms, like Sky Q, are secure and we deploy cutting edge technology, intelligence and investigations to stay one step ahead. We enforce the law and we work with our partners, like the big tech and social media platforms, to make sure that they understand the threat, and take action.

The Rewards

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here's a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base

Osterley:
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There's also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

Inclusion

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We're more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can't wait to hear from you.

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Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.